Any chance iOS 5 lets devs access Reading List in Safari? A potential Read Later option for Twitter clients, etc.
I've been asking devs through Twitter for a while, but am yet to hear anything back.
IOS – Devs, can 3rd party apps access Safari’s Reading List
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I am not aware of any options in Safari. Neither the search option under Help, nor the search option under All Bookmarks yielded any results.
But, OSX's Spotlight did index the reading list: Results appear in the section Webpages.
First I added the webpage to the reading list. Then I reset Safari.
And voilà, Spotlight found it. Not the best solution, but the best I found.
I find the Send to Instapaper button to be perfect for archiving because it's so ubiquitous. The glue that gets your articles from there to Evernote is IFTTT.
Just create a rule that says anything you save to Instapaper gets imported to Evernote and you're set. I believe you can automatically have it add a tag at the same time.
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Well, I don't think there is official support for third-party access to the reading list from Apple, but I know they are stored in this file on the Mac, and I would assume it is the same on iOS, or close to:
Just look for a key that has an entry named "Title" and a key value of "com.apple.ReadingList". It's the last one in my own file, but I don't expect it to be like this all the way.
And I suggest looking at it with a property list editor, like Xcode 4, it's a binary property list, doesn't look right when opened in TextEdit or other similar app.